Archived web library requires 1 TB of memory.

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The Internet Archive, which collects and stores a library of 151 billion web pages, has upgraded to a new computer that fills a 20-foot-long metal shipping container. The container, filled with 63 server clusters, provides 4.5 million gigabytes of data storage capacity and I terabyte (TB) of memory, according to ComputerWorld.

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The Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization that makes images of the web available through its Wayback Machine site, has taken such snapshots of the web every two months for the past 12 years. The Wayback Machine site attracts 200,000 visitors daily--about 500 hits per second on the 4.5 petabyte database, ComputerWorld calculated.

To keep up with the rise in websites, the Internet Archive has grown quickly over the past decade. Most recently...